Open horizons.Ancient Greek Journeys and Connections

A concise assemblage of 44 representative ancient objects from the collections of the National Archaeological Museum substantiates the advance and spread of the Greeks throughout the Mediterranean basin and the Black Sea from the era of the prehistoric Cyclades until the 2nd century CE, when the fusion of the Greek with the Roman civilisation was accomplished, to be later imparted to the whole of Europe. The exhibition highlights the evolution and development of Greek civilisation across the length and breadth of their known world, the intercultural relations with the peoples the Greeks encountered in their travels, and also the means of communication and transmission of their achievements, diachronically. Journeys, population movements, migrations, trade and entrepreneurship unfold in a panoramic manner and are interlinked with the spiritual and artistic creations of the time and of today in the exhibition: from the Cycladic civilisation to Homeric Greece, the archaic and classical times, Alexander the Great, reaching up to the apogee of the Roman Empire. The journey of open horizons never ceases for the Greeks.